Updated 10:33 pm, Thursday, August 13, 2015

Jeffrey Navin, 56, and Jeanette Navin, 55, of Easton, Conn. was reported missing on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Navin and his wife Jeanette were last seen on Tuesday, Aug. 4.

Jeffrey Navin, 56, and Jeanette Navin, 55, of Easton, Conn. was reported missing on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Navin and his wife Jeanette were last seen on Tuesday, Aug. 4.

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Residence, left, formerly owned by missing Easton couple Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, above, on Osborn Farm Rd. in Weston. was reported missing on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Navin and her husband Jeffrey were last seen on Tuesday, Aug. 4. less

Residence, left, formerly owned by missing Easton couple Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, above, on Osborn Farm Rd. in Weston. was reported missing on Friday, Aug. 7, 2015. Navin and her husband Jeffrey were last ... more

A view of the residence formerly owned by missing Easton couple Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, on Osborn Farm Road in Weston, Conn., on Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015. The couple, who moved to Easton, have been missing since Aug. 4, after their car was found off of exit 42 in Westport. less

A view of the residence formerly owned by missing Easton couple Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, on Osborn Farm Road in Weston, Conn., on Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015. The couple, who moved to Easton, have been missing ... more

Easton resident Brady Sezon starts her shift at the Easton Library on Morehouse Road in Easton, Conn., on Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015. Two of the town's residents, Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, have been missing since Aug. 4. Sezon offers her toughts on the missing couple by stating, "What I personally think is that since they went on vacation so much maybe they found a place to go or keep on moving." less

Easton resident Brady Sezon starts her shift at the Easton Library on Morehouse Road in Easton, Conn., on Wednesday Aug. 12, 2015. Two of the town's residents, Jeffrey and Jeanette Navin, have been missing ... more

EASTON — The family Jeff and Jeanette Navin, missing since Aug. 4, denied Thursday morning that the couple’s debts are related to their disappearance.

“Financial issues recently reported by the media have not been proven to be a factor for our family members’ disappearance,’’ reads the statement released through Police Chief Tim Shaw.

“Information from the authorities indicates that there are available funds still in their bank accounts that are untouched,’’ the statement reads. “We, the entire Navin family, ask for privacy and respect during this overwhelming and troubling time.’’

Navin, the 56-year-old president of J&J Refuse in Westport, and his wife, a Weston Intermediate School library paraprofessional have debts of nearly $2.4 million, court records show.

Court documents show Jeffrey Navin was found to owe HSBC bank nearly $2.229 million for a foreclosed home on Hart Landing in Guilford. Another ruling found him responsible for $138,137, with interest accruing at $132.82 per week, for unpaid electrical bills to the former Connecticut Light and Power Co., dating to July 2007.

The Navins owned or lived in various homes on Merwin Avenue and Oak Bluff Road in Milford, on Newtown Turnpike and Surf Road in Westport, and more recently on Osborn Farm Road in Weston and Staples Road in Easton, according to public records.

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The Osborn Farm Road home was sold for about $900,000 on June 1. The Navins moved to Easton and were renting the Staples Road home.

The couple has been known to vacation frequently, according to sources. A pickup truck belonging to them was found Aug. 9 in a Westport commuter parking lot off exit 42 of the Merritt Parkway.

While Easton Police do not yet suspect foul play, Chief Tim Shaw expressed some concern Wednesday. The case is still being handled as a missing persons case at this time, he said.

Shaw said that when the couple’s vehicle was found in the commuter lot, the right front window was broken. But police believe that the vandalism occurred after the car had been left there.

Family members had reported the couple missing on Tuesday, the police chief said. A state trooper found the Navins’ vehicle during a routine check of the commuter lot on Sunday.

It is about a 20 minute trip between the Navins’ Easton home and the Westport commuter lot, Shaw said, “going by backcountry roads which are popular with people trying to avoid traffic.’’

The family statement released Thursday continues: “We are shocked and saddened at the unexpected disappearance of Jeff and Jeanette Navin. There are no words to describe the impact this has had on their parents, siblings, and children.

“We wish only for their safe return and we ask for anyone who has seen either of them since Tuesday, August 4th, to contact the Easton police’’ at 203-638-0581.